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Blockchains cannot understand intent like a human courts can. The idea that intent is an important part of determining the punishment/morals of the crime came

Blockchains cannot understand intent like a human courts can. The idea that intent is an important part of determining the punishment/morals of the crime came out of the French Enlightenment. I'd really rather not roll back this. The difference between an accident, manslaughter, and first degree murder are non-trivial and VERY IMPORTANT. Also fuck you if you want to train an ML bot to that job. You clear don't get it.

astrodust 10y ago
A small plastic drone with a blue light on top rolls up to the front door of your house and knocks angrily. You answer. "Your parcel was delivered, but the contents were damaged. According to the picture provided by the purchaser the person inside died while in transit." What? A person? "It was a mannequin. It's a piece of plastic." The bot prints out a thermal receipt onto a tray. "You are charged with: Manslaughter. Fifteen to twenty years. Sign here."
avmich 10y ago
> Blockchains cannot understand intent like a human courts can. > Also fuck you if you want to train an ML bot to that job. You clear don't get it. Very interesting :) - can you elaborate more?
jbpetersen 10y ago
Alternately, you could start up a prediction market on how likely the accused is to commit crimes in the future based on potential sentences, sell shares of their future income in order to incentivize proper rehabilitation, weigh the various registered values of voters to determine how much money and time should be sacrificed for the sake of seeing the guilty punished, get the case analyzed by various remote contractors who have proven records on predicting verdicts, and various other ambiguously utopian/dystopian "improvements" to the legal system of today. And how long until you can train the ML bot to do better than a randomly selected jury at predicting what a larger jury would make of a case?

astrodust 10y ago

A small plastic drone with a blue light on top rolls up to the front door of your house and knocks angrily. You answer. "Your parcel was delivered, but the contents were damaged. According to the picture provided by the purchaser the person inside died while in transit." What? A person? "It was a mannequin. It's a piece of plastic." The bot prints out a thermal receipt onto a tray. "You are charged with: Manslaughter. Fifteen to twenty years. Sign here."

avmich 10y ago

> Blockchains cannot understand intent like a human courts can. > Also fuck you if you want to train an ML bot to that job. You clear don't get it. Very interesting :) - can you elaborate more?

jbpetersen 10y ago

Alternately, you could start up a prediction market on how likely the accused is to commit crimes in the future based on potential sentences, sell shares of their future income in order to incentivize proper rehabilitation, weigh the various registered values of voters to determine how much money and time should be sacrificed for the sake of seeing the guilty punished, get the case analyzed by various remote contractors who have proven records on predicting verdicts, and various other ambiguously utopian/dystopian "improvements" to the legal system of today. And how long until you can train the ML bot to do better than a randomly selected jury at predicting what a larger jury would make of a case?